AIpocalypse? - Is this the end, or just the beginning? AIpocalypse is a companion piece in this tectonic moment for humans + AI.
Matt Boatright-Simon is CEO and founder of full stack frontier AI SPEAK.STUDIO. He’s developer, UX and UI designer, thought leader, entrepreneur, and filmmaker/podcaster.
Boatright-Simon is a pioneer in experimentation & development of emerging technologies and methods of visual and audio storytelling including Gen AI, VR, plenoptic capture+presentation, and large-scale volumetric photogrammetry.
SPEAKER+PAnELIST
A thought leader on intersection of technology+creativity, and business, he keynotes, panels and speaks on Frontier AI, Storytelling and Podcasting.
Meta, UCLA, Technology Industry Group (Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dell), Wealth Literacy Conference, Forward Fest Madison, Wisconsin Lt. Governor’s Small Business Academy, Blacks in Tech (LA), and for groups including UWEBC, Starting Block, and more.
AIpocalypse? Ep 2 pt 3 - Audrey Korte
Audrey Korte’s is a high-profile case study, and a real-time experiment that is high-stakes world of AI adoption.
Special thank you to Audrey Korte.
Blogs and donations @: www.lightship.blog/
CREDITS:
This show is a SPEAK Original and a production of SPEAK.STUDIO, recorded in our midwest studio HQ in Madison WI
AIpocalypse? is created by Matt Boatright-Simon
Head of Phycical Production: Peter Benedict
Editing and Sound design: Elyse Archie
Show art and design Forward Design, a division of SPEAK
Thank you for listening.
GUEST: Audrey Korte
Born at Fort Riley in Kansas in 1981 and raised as an Army brat and Episcopal clergy kid, I had an upbringing like no other. Dad's family, a large Roman Catholic crew from Emporia and Arkansas City, grew up poor but determined and he and all six siblings went on to do great things. It's a family story of service to community and country that many in the Midwest could relate to -- an American tale of determination, of pulling a family out of poverty that many of us in 2025 long for but find difficult to bring to fruition in the face of the economics and corruption we now face.
My mother, a lifelong Anglican raised in the Episcopal Church, grew up in Newport, Rhode Island and I consider both Kansas and Rhode Island home as much as one can who has moved as many times as I have. She likes to tell a story of running off to Kansas for college as a young woman because her best friend was going there. She went on an adventure to the middle of America and met my dad within the first month she was at the University of Kansas, where he too was a student.
AIpocalypse? Ep 2 pt 2- Audrey Korte
Audrey Korte’s is a high-profile case study, and a real-time experiment that is high-stakes world of AI adoption.
Special thank you to Audrey Korte.
Blogs and donations @: www.lightship.blog/
CREDITS:
This show is a SPEAK Original and a production of SPEAK.STUDIO, recorded in our midwest studio HQ in Madison WI
AIpocalypse? is created by Matt Boatright-Simon
Head of Phycical Production: Peter Benedict
Editing and Sound design: Elyse Archie
Show art and design Forward Design, a division of SPEAK
Thank you for listening.
GUEST: Audrey Korte
Born at Fort Riley in Kansas in 1981 and raised as an Army brat and Episcopal clergy kid, I had an upbringing like no other. Dad's family, a large Roman Catholic crew from Emporia and Arkansas City, grew up poor but determined and he and all six siblings went on to do great things. It's a family story of service to community and country that many in the Midwest could relate to -- an American tale of determination, of pulling a family out of poverty that many of us in 2025 long for but find difficult to bring to fruition in the face of the economics and corruption we now face.
My mother, a lifelong Anglican raised in the Episcopal Church, grew up in Newport, Rhode Island and I consider both Kansas and Rhode Island home as much as one can who has moved as many times as I have. She likes to tell a story of running off to Kansas for college as a young woman because her best friend was going there. She went on an adventure to the middle of America and met my dad within the first month she was at the University of Kansas, where he too was a student.
AIpocalypse? Ep 2 pt 1- Audrey Korte
Audrey Korte’s is a high-profile case study, and a real-time experiment that is high-stakes world of AI adoption.
Special thank you to Audrey Korte.
Blogs and donations @: www.lightship.blog/
CREDITS:
This show is a SPEAK Original and a production of SPEAK.STUDIO, recorded in our midwest studio HQ in Madison WI
AIpocalypse? is created by Matt Boatright-Simon
Head of Phycical Production: Peter Benedict
Editing and Sound design: Elyse Archie
Show art and design Forward Design, a division of SPEAK
Thank you for listening.
Aipocalypse? Ep 1 - Matt chats with Chat GPT
Wild, weird, and wonderful chat between Matt Boatright-Simon and ChatGPT 4....
Wild, weird, and wonderful chat between Matt Boatright-Simon and ChatGPT 4....
AIpocalypse? - _start
Welcome to AIPocalypse, a bold new podcast series that dives headfirst into the strange, thrilling, and deeply human moments of our AI-infused era. This isn't your average tech talk. It's a sonic time capsule, a cultural reckoning, and a front-row seat to the biggest shift since the internet.
From whispered fears to wild breakthroughs, from policy shakeups to poetic code, AIPocalypse captures the voices, vibes, and visions shaping the world as we race into the unknown. Is this the end—or just the beginning?
Join us on SPEAK.STUDIO starting July 4 for the premiere of a series that doesn’t just ask where AI is going… it asks where we’re going with it.
Wednesday August 20, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pmCDT
Optimist or pessimist? Architect or casualty? The world is changing—now—and creativity, branding, and identity will never be the same.
AIpocalypse is a bold, live-studio experience hosted by technologist and thought leader **Matt Boatright-Simon**, joined by a powerhouse lineup of visionary artists, strategists, futurists, and AI experts. Together, they explore the radical disruption—and unexpected possibility—AI brings to the creative world.
Will humanity be rendered obsolete? Will we unlock superpowers beyond imagination? Or are we entering entirely uncharted terrain?
From provocative demos to unscripted conversations, **AIpocalypse** dives into the cultural, economic, and existential stakes of Artificial General Intelligence.
This description written by a human + AI hybrid
Welcome to AIPocalypse, a bold new podcast series that dives headfirst into the strange, thrilling, and deeply human moments of our AI-infused era. This isn't your average tech talk. It's a sonic time capsule, a cultural reckoning, and a front-row seat to the biggest shift since the internet.
From whispered fears to wild breakthroughs, from policy shakeups to poetic code, AIPocalypse? captures the voices, vibes, and visions shaping the world as we race into the unknown. Is this the end—or just the beginning?